Thursday, August 22, 2013

Step By Step - Feeling Grey

I was 14 when I started describing my mood as "grey". It was very flat and boring, feeling tired and disinterested in everything. It was a bit like floating through a virtual plane. To be honest, I never really grew out of it.

Starting with a quick pencil sketch...

Filled it in with a charcoal pencil and sprayed the whole thing with lots and lots of water (and a bit of watercolour) to see if it would drip! It did a little bit. Even better, I think it may have sealed the loose charcoal into the paper because it wasn't rubbing off onto my fingers anymore.

Here's the finished step, after adding a bit of collage and hand stitching! This small painting will be in the shop later... in the meantime I've got tiramisu to assemble :3

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Melissa Peacock is an emerging artist who combines watercolour and other media to reflect the beauty in the world around her. She often uses saturated colour and imagery of flora and fauna in a whimsical contemporary style.